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  • Blogs

    March 13, 2012

    Houston: Only Two U.S. Cities Have More Dangerous Drivers

    As you head out for your commute, keep this cheery thought in mind: You are about to hand your life over to some of the most dangerous people around: other Houstonian drivers. Space City drivers are the third-most dangerous in the nation, according to another one of those pseudoscientific studies b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2012

    Update: Rough Weather, Tornados Rolling Through Houston, Affecting Airports

    As has been mentioned by weather forecasters in recent days, some pretty rough weather is passing through Houston this morning as part of a cold front. The storms are spanning high winds, torrential rain (some areas could receive up to five inches), flash flooding and potential tornadoes. According ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2011

    Wildfires in Spring Cause Evacuations

    Spring residents, watch out.​The Houston area has been mostly spared the wildfires that have been hitting other parts of Texas, but an abnormally large grass fire is causing problems this afternoon in Spring. The blaze is near FM 1960 and the Hardy Toll Road, which should also make the aftern ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2011

    This Hurricane Season, Stock Up the Right Way

    Hey, Hurricane Ike Bear; quit dicking around and go buy some bottled water.​Weather agencies across the nation are predicting a much busier hurricane season this year than usual. NOAA predicts up to 10 hurricanes between now and November, with three to six of those being major hurricanes. Rem ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2011

    Comment of the Day: Remembering Hurricanes Alicia and Claudette

    ​We have some great commenters here on Hair Balls, and it's time we paid some damn attention to them. So we'll be highlighting a Comment of the Day each morning, from the previous day's work. Maybe two comments, even. This will all be determined by a highly rigorous scientific formula involv ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2011

    Unidentified Male, 30-35, Bayou Body Count No. 34

    Man killed in fatal traffic accident.​HPD is investigating a fatal traffic accident at 4400 South MacGregor Way around 7:25 p.m. Friday, March 18. The victim, a 30 to 35-year-old male, is currently unidentified. According to the incident report, the victim was driving a tan Jeep Wrangler east ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2011

    Patrick Ita: The Genius Who Combined Medicare and Katrina Fraud

    Like combining chocolate and peanut butter​In the Southern District of Texas, U.S. Attorneys often deal with two kinds of fraud: scams involving a) Medicare, or b) Hurricanes Katrina or Rita. It takes a special genius to combine the two, and apparently Patrick Ita is that man. Prosecutors un ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2010

    Best Month For Weather In Houston? We Say October

    No gloom yet in Houston​Los Angeles is broiling, Florida and the Carolinas are still stocking water and batteries for the weeks of hurricane season still remaining, and we here in Houston are basking in our first coll front.Not only does it mean no more hurricanes, it means goodbye to humidity and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2010

    Hurricane Rita, Five Years Later: What's Your Story?

    As you sit in a bit of stalled traffic today or tomorrow, you can ease your annoyance a bit by remembering what was happening five years ago this week.Just weeks after Houstonians watched horrified as Hurricane Katrina pounded New Orleans and spawned jaw-dropping scenes of just how bad things can be ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 26, 2010

    Hurricane Heist

    Things gets illustrated in Dark Rain

  • Calendar

    August 26, 2010

    10 by 10

    Local playwrights show off their short works

  • Calendar

    August 26, 2010

    10 by 10

    Local playwrights show off their short works

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2010

    Local Oil Spill 'Action Group' To Host Mock Funeral At City Hall

    orcoo.orgCome equipped​It took nearly three months to stop oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion from spewing into the Gulf of Mexico. By the time the well was "capped," it is estimated that over 4.9 million barrels of crude oil flowed into the ocean, killing marine life and destroying ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2010

    BP Oil Spill: Tunes For Turtles This Weekend

    Onward through the oil​Since the BP oil spill began 8,427 days ago, we've heard about how the catastrophe has endangered the welfare of birds, fishermen, tourist shops, and at least one British dickhead CEO, but there hasn't been much said about our society's most vulnerable -- Gulf Coas ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2010

    Tar Balls In Galveston: What's New?

    Searching "tar balls," "Galveston" and "not uncommon" yields results​The tar balls in Galveston have gotten widespread attention, even though their number and effect is laughably small compared to other states and even though they probably traveled here by boat and not ocean currents, meaning more ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2010

    Hurricanes: Rice Says Ike Was Nothing

    Just a fresh seabreeze compared to what could have been​Just in time for hurricane season, a group created in the wake of Ike has issued a report that should be entitled "The Bejesus, And Scaring It Out Of You."Remember Ike and how much that sucked? Destruction in Galveston, no electricity in Hous ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2010

    Local Lawyers Unimpressed With Transocean's Bid To Limit Its Oil-Spill Exposure

    Photo courtesy US Coast GuardPLEASE let the oil-spill litigation be heard here, Houston hotel owners pray​Transocean, the Houston company that owned and operated the Deepwater Horizon rig that is currently gushing huge amount of oil into the Gulf, is looking to limit the amount of damages they may ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2010

    The Gulf Oil Spill and the Seafood Industry

    scmtngirl​With the Gulf oil spill now a full-on environmental disaster, seafood lovers are worried. Commercial and recreational fishing has been restricted in certain areas of the Gulf, and seafood supplier Louisiana Foods's Jim Gossen says he's already seen some increase in prices for Gulf oyster ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2010

    And I Would Have Gotten Away With It, Too, If It Wasn't For That Meddling Hurricane!!

    ​Deanne Snowball had a sweet deal going, and we don't just mean her name.Her dad died in 1998 (that's not the sweet part), but the Louisiana Carpenters Regional Council Pension Plan had continued to send his monthly pension checks (that is). Not one to look a gift horse in the mouth, Snowball cash ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 10, 2009

    The Annual Christmas Boat Lane Parade on Clear Lake

    This yearly flotilla lights up the Gulf Coast

  • Calendar

    September 24, 2009
  • Blogs

    September 1, 2009

    If Who's On First, What's On Second: A Post-Ike Diary Documenting One Family's Attempt To Get Past First Base With The Houston Housing Authority

    ​Ike's anniversary is coming up, an event which will be well-covered locally. We're doing out part with the September 10 issue; until then we'll be posting some Ike-related items to whet the appetite.In the 1950s the famous comedy team of Abbott and Costello developed what is probably their most ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2009

    Laid Off UTMB-Galveston Faculty Not Having A Lot Of Luck With Appeals

    The Scientist, a magazine that takes a skeptical look at goings-on in the medical industry, has a new report out on UTMB-Galveston's treatment of faculty in the wake of Hurricane Ike.Color them unimpressed. (Free registration may be required.)Or, maybe impressed -- just not in a good way. If you're ... More >>

  • News

    June 4, 2009

    Have a Nice Summer!

    Panic, FEMA, empty shelves — here's the only Hurricane Guide you'll need this year.

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2009

    June 1: And So It Begins......

    NEWS FLASH!!!!!!!!! (MUST CREDIT HAIR BALLS!!!!!) Today is the beginning of the hurricane season.While the rest of the so-called mainstream media will ignore this important milestone simply because writing or airing stuff about hurricanes in Houston results in cheap increases in ratings and clic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 10, 2009

    How Much More Clear Than "Certain Death" Can You Be?

    The South Florida Sun-Sentinel has a story up today about how the National Weather Service plans to offer guidelines on changing the warnings it gives for hurricanes and tornadoes, because not enough people are paying attention to them.Reports the paper:"It's not necessarily an overhaul. It's just b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2009

    Can't Get It Out of My Head: "New Madrid"

    Wilco, "New Madrid," live at the Fox Theater, Boulder, Colorado, May 1995 Rocks Off is never really not on an Uncle Tupelo kick, but it sure came flooding back after he heard "New Madrid" on Fred Imus' Saturday-morning Trailer Park Bash satellite-radio show last weekend. Even among such fut ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 6, 2008

    Chasing Tornadoes

    Storm expert Tim Samaras shares his up-close-and-personal experiences with deadly wind funnels

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2008

    News Chopper Crash Shows The Dangers

    Storm expert Tim Samaras shares his up-close-and-personal experiences with deadly wind funnels

  • Blogs

    September 30, 2008

    Always Look On The Bright Side Of Ike

    Storm expert Tim Samaras shares his up-close-and-personal experiences with deadly wind funnels

  • Blogs

    September 25, 2008

    Update on "Thank You, Houston" Event

    Storm expert Tim Samaras shares his up-close-and-personal experiences with deadly wind funnels

  • News

    September 18, 2008

    Bayousphere

    Storm expert Tim Samaras shares his up-close-and-personal experiences with deadly wind funnels

  • Blogs

    September 12, 2008

    Ike's Effects Reach Into Space

    Storm expert Tim Samaras shares his up-close-and-personal experiences with deadly wind funnels

  • Blogs

    September 12, 2008

    Can't Anyone Just Predict "Slightly Breezy And Seasonably Cool"?

    Storm expert Tim Samaras shares his up-close-and-personal experiences with deadly wind funnels

  • Blogs

    September 12, 2008

    Positive Pub For Mayor White

    Storm expert Tim Samaras shares his up-close-and-personal experiences with deadly wind funnels

  • Blogs

    September 12, 2008

    "Certain Death" Doesn't Bar Commercials

    Storm expert Tim Samaras shares his up-close-and-personal experiences with deadly wind funnels

  • Blogs

    July 18, 2008

    Time to Watch the Tropics?

    Storm expert Tim Samaras shares his up-close-and-personal experiences with deadly wind funnels

  • Calendar

    August 9, 2007

    “Seeing Beneath Mount Everest: Probing a Breeding Ground of Destructive Earthquakes

    Anne Sheehan talks about earthquakes, Mount Everest and scorpions

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2007

    Time Bomb Defused

    Anne Sheehan talks about earthquakes, Mount Everest and scorpions

  • Music

    October 19, 2006

    Stealing the Show

    New Orleans musicians blew into Houston on Katrina's winds and everything was magic for a while

  • Best of Houston

    September 28, 2006

    SARTIN'S

    Despite natural disasters and failed marriages, this seafood joint lives on

  • News

    September 21, 2006

    What Happened?

    We were promised killer hurricanes!

  • Calendar

    June 15, 2006

    Worldly Moves

    We were promised killer hurricanes!

  • Calendar

    June 8, 2006

    Really Good Sax

    We were promised killer hurricanes!

  • News

    March 30, 2006

    Run Over by Metro

    The city's bus company shows little inclination to pay up or change its ways, even after it smacks into people like its own employee Clarence Santee Jr.

  • News

    January 26, 2006

    La Mordita

    Check cashers and furniture rental companies take a big chunk out of post-hurricane FEMA checks

  • News

    November 3, 2005

    Against All Odds

    A group of unsupervised mental patients running from Katrina made it from New Orleans to Houston. Victor Fruge led the way.

  • Music

    September 8, 2005

    Welcome, Neighbors

    Houston's music community responds to an unprecedented influx of talent

  • News

    September 8, 2005

    Katrina & The Waves

    Houston gets hit with its own hurricane surge

  • News

    February 12, 2004

    Ship Wrecked

    A Houston firm certified the oil tanker Prestige as good to go. It broke apart in the Atlantic, causing the worst environmental disaster in Spanish history.

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